HINTERLANDS

Meaning of HINTERLANDS in English

[plural] [noun] USThe hinterlands are a part of the country away from the big city areas.

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

COSSACKS — Peoples dwelling in the northern hinterlands of the Black and Caspian seas. The term (from the Turkic kazak , "free …
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CAMBODIA — Country, Southeast Asia. Area: 69,898 sq mi (181,036 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 13,414,000. Capital: Phnom Penh . The vast …
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BALTIC LANGUAGES — Branch of the Lithuanian , Latvian , and Old Prussian. They were or are spoken along the eastern and southeastern …
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BOOR — I. ˈbu̇(ə)r, ˈbu̇ə noun ( -s ) Etymology: Dutch boer peasant, farmer, short for Middle Dutch gheboer, ghebuur, from ghe- …
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HINTERLAND
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HINTERLAND — /hin"teuhr land'/ , n. 1. Often, hinterlands . the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The …
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HINTERLAND — also called Umland tributary region, either rural or urban or both, that is closely linked economically with a nearby town …
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VERACRUZ — estado (state), east-central Mexico. Long and narrow, it stretches 430 miles (690 km) along the coast of the Gulf of …
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VALENCIA — county, central New Mexico, U.S., in the Mexican Highland section of the Basin and Range Province. The Manzano Mountains lie …
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TUBMAN, WILLIAM V(ACANARAT) S(HADRACH) — born Nov. 29, 1895, Harper, Liberia died July 23, 1971, London, Eng. statesman whose 27 years as Liberia's 17th president …
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SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN — member of any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the continent of South America. The customs and social systems of South …
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SONORA — estado (state), northwestern Mexico, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by Chihuahua, on the south …
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SAO PAULO — city, capital of So Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil. The foremost industrial centre in Latin America, So Paulo is Brazil's …
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SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER AND SEAWAY — The St. Lawrence hydrographic system, with the five main sectors of the St. Lawrence Seaway project hydrographic system of east-central …
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MOZAMBIQUE, ISLAND OF — Portuguese Ilha de Moambique, small coral island located at the mouth of Mossuril Bay in the Mozambique Channel of the …
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MELANESIA — one of the traditional ethnogeographic groupings of the Pacific Islands, including (generally from west to east) the island of New …
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ITALY, FLAG OF — vertically striped green-white-red national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3. A rich history of flags and coats of …
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HOLOCENE EPOCH — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. formerly Recent Epoch, …
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COSSACK — Russian Kazak (from Turkic kazak, adventurer, or free man), member of a people dwelling in the northern hinterlands of the …
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COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO — city, southwestern Uruguay, 110 miles (177 km) west-northwest of Montevideo. It sits on San Gabriel Peninsula, which juts into the …
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CENTRAL VALLEY — also called the Great Valley, valley, in California, U.S., covering about 18,000 square miles (47,000 square km) and paralleling the …
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, FLAG OF THE — national flag with horizontal stripes of blue, white, green, and yellow, all overlapped by a central red vertical stripe; a …
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CATALONIA — Spanish Catalua, Catalan Catalunya comunidad autnoma (autonomous community) and historic region of Spain encompassing the northeastern Spanish provincias of Gerona, …
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LIVING
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LIVE
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HINTERLAND — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE rural ▪ It's a far cry from the ragged, skinny reality of city streets …
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EKE — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES scrape out/scratch out/eke out a living (= to barely earn enough money to live ) …
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